Lorraine Hansberry

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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Topic

Uniqueness of each person

Author

Lorraine Hansberry

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hansberry, Lorraine. Diary entry. 1 May 1962.

Though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic-to be young, gifted and black.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Lorraine Hansberry

Source

The Nation Needs Your Gifts

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hansberry, Lorraine. "The Nation Needs Your Gifts." Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners meeting. 1 May 1964, New York City, NY, USA.